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Owen’s CV

Owen Barder is Senior Fellow & Director for Europe at the Center for Global Development. His professional interests are the political economy of development policies and aid, transparency and accountability, innovative finance, public financial management, information, knowledge, technology, new media, Africa, health economics. Owen is also an Associate of the British Institute for Government.

Before that, Owen was a British civil servant in a career spanning more than 20 years. He worked worked at the UK Department for International Development, as Director of International Finance and Development Effectiveness, Director of Communications, Information and Knowledge, and as Head of Africa Policy Department.

Before working on international development, Owen was the Prime Minister’s Economic Affairs Private Secretary, in 10 Downing Street. In this role, he coordinated Government policy and delivery on microeconomic policy, including trade and industry, the knowledge economy, environment, transport, regional policy, education, employment, science, and modernizing government. From 1988 to 1997, Owen was an official at H M Treasury. His roles included being Private Secretary to two successive Chancellors of the Exchequer, coordinating the public spending system, forecasting the world economy, forecasting and analysis of domestic labour markets, and medium term macroeconomic policy analysis.

Owen took various breaks from the civil service to work in the South African Treasury, where he helped to develop a medium term budget process, the Center for Global Development where he helped to develop the Advance Market Commitment for vaccines, and as a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley.

In 1993, Owen set up the UK Government’s first website, for H M Treasury.

Since 2009 Owen has been a member of the Board of Twaweza, which promotes opportunities for citizens in East Africa to hold government authorities to account. From 2000 to 2004, Owen was a non-executive director of OneWorld, a not-for-profit whose mission is to promote the use of the internet and media for the benefit of the world’s poor.

Hi Owen, on a different note (than the internet issues), we may have to work together while/if I am sent to AA. I am with the French foreign service. I am currently in Pretoria working on domestic political issues. Best.

you’ve found a small enclave of followers and fans at my website http://www.therunningbug.co.uk – keep up the good work – and the running; we love your site and the valuable converters you have created.

Hi Owen!
My company develops language learning software. I’m looking for people in Ethiopia who have an interest in video to make some simple videos in Amharic, which will be integrated in our product. Naturally, we’ll pay. If you, or someone you know, would be interested in this, please let me know.

hi Owen
its nice work i want to say u is that just keep it up.am an elcetrical engineer workiing in ethioian telecomm corporation but i need your help in developing websites becouse am assigned to work in this area.
with regards!

Hi Owen,
It is nice to see your work here in Ethiopia. I work for Development Expertise Center (DEC-Ethiopia)
I often write articles and published some on the weekly Fortune.
The issues I wrote about include government, NGO tussle for Development resources, MFI’s effectiveness and many more,
I would like to work for or with you.
Would love to learn more and see changes flourishing everywhere.
Regards!

Came across your blog while tweeting. Great to see your work across various disciplines, keep up the good job. Liked your website as well, clean and easy on the eyes. I was wondering if you have come across Microfinance. Would love to hear more about that.

Happy to find your blog and I’m very impressed by your resume. My focus is East Africa and as part of my research I see room for substantial improvement in what seems to be a balkanized aid/fair trade advocacy industry. Hope to learn a lot from you.